INDIGO-1 MidnightBlue

The INDIGO-DataCloud project is pleased to announce the general availability of its first public software release, codenamed MidnightBlue.

This release comes after an initial phase of requirement gatherings which involved several European scientific collaborations in areas as diverse as structural biology, earth sciences, physics, bioinformatics, cultural heritage, astrophysics, life sciences, climatology, etc. This resulted in the development of many software components addressing existing technical gaps linked to easy and optimal usage of distributed data and compute resources. These components are now released into a consistent and modular suite, offered as a contribution toward the definition and implementation of an efficient European Open Science Cloud.

The first INDIGO-DataCloud release provides open source components for:

Automated Solutions. INDIGO provides a rich set of high-level automated functionalities. Some of the most innovative are:

Improved capabilities in the geographical exploitation of Cloud resources. End users need not know where resources are located, because the INDIGO PaaS layer hides the complexity of both scheduling and brokering.

Standard interface to access PaaS services. INDIGO uses the TOSCA standard to hide the difference on the different way of implementing services at the PaaS level.

Support for data requirements in Cloud resource allocations: computational resources can be requested and allocated where data is stored.

Integrated use of resources coming from both public and private Cloud infrastructures.

All the INDIGO components are integrated into a comprehensive Authentication and Authorization Architecture, with support for user authentication through multiple methods (SAML, OpenID Connect and X.509), support for distributed authorization policies and a Token Translation Service, creating credentials for services that do not natively support OpenID Connect.

The INDIGO-DataCloud software is released under the Apache 2.0 software license and can be deployed on both public and private Cloud infrastructures. It can be downloaded from http://repo.indigo-datacloud.eu.

Stay tuned. Updates and new releases of the INDIGO services are expected to come in the forthcoming months. If you want to be notified when a new release is out, register here. The first scientific applications and use cases adopting this first INDIGO release are expected starting from September 2016.

INDIGO-DataCloud is an Horizon 2020 project funded by the European Commission from April 2015 to September 2017. It involves 26 European partners, including research institutes, scientific collaborations, software developers, universities, e-infrastructures, private companies. Its main goal is to provide software solutions for science addressing several of the technology gaps in Cloud and Data technologies currently experienced by resource providers and scientists working in either small or big collaborations.

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Containers present in those repositories and released in INDIGO-1 are tagged with "indigo-1" tag and signed, leveraging the Docker’s trust features so that users can pull trusted images.